Anne Wiazemsky, born in 1947, emerged as a distinctive voice in French cinema during the late 1960s. She made her mark in Weekend (1967), where she navigates the chaotic landscape of modern relationships, and Sympathy for the Devil (1968), capturing the zeitgeist of a generation. Her role in Pigsty (1969) further solidified her place in the realm of avant-garde film. With her connections to influential directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Wiazemsky's performances reflect the bold experimentation of the era, making her a significant figure in the cult film conversation.
Weekend
Roland and Corinne are a bourgeois couple. Each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They drive out to Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary. The trip becomes a chaotically picaresque journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own Facel-Vega is destroyed in a collision, they wander through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Emily Brontë. When Corinne and Roland eventually arrive at her parents' place, they discover that her father has died and her mother refuses to give them a share of the spoils. They kill her and hit the road again, only to fall into the hands of a group of hippie revolutionaries (calling themselves the Seine and Oise Liberation Front) that support themselves through theft and cannibalism. Killed during an escape attempt, Roland is chopped up and cooked.
